Absolute poverty

Poverty is also called the survival of absolute poverty. Refers to certain social modes of production and way of life, the individuals and families rely on their labor income and other legitimate income could not sustain their basic survival needs, so that individuals or families on poor people or poor call. From the production side, the labor shortage of the material conditions of reproduction, it is difficult to maintain the simple reproduction of its own, producers can only shrink reproduction; from the consumer side, people can not be satisfied clothing, food, shelter and other basic needs of human life the minimum conditions that is often said that the "hungry, clothing does not, housing is not sheltered cold" situation. In accordance with international standards, the daily income of less than 1 U.S. dollars of man-made absolute poverty; different countries have different national conditions due to its slightly different standards, such as China's standard 0.7 U.S. dollars a day income is less than man-made absolute poverty.